I CALLED YOU TO SPEAK TO YOU

HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div

“For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain..” Acts 28:20

“I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ” Ephesians 3:1

Bound — yet with a heart set free — so it may be with me. Circumstances may trammel and restrict me; but if I have been freed from the fetters of guilt and the burden of sin, through what Christ has done and is doing and will continue to do for me — I am a partaker of glorious liberty.

Bound — yet with a mind enriched and satisfied — so it may be with me. Prison walls may shut me in; but if the treasures of God’s Word, and the teachings of the Holy Spirit, and the thoughts which wander through eternity, are mine — then I walk into a spacious room.

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THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT IS LOVE

Bound — yet with love and lips unfettered and at the Master’s use — so it may be with me. In my sick chamber, in my narrow place, there are letters I can write, there are words I can speak, whose influence may reach far and live long. Am I not a freeman? Am I not a worker together with God?

Bound — yet with an imagination lighted up with the brightest hopes — so it may be with me. The sky in the West is rosy red. The crown of righteousness is waiting for me. The towers of the New Jerusalem loom through the mists. Who is as happy as I am?

This is indeed the blessed imprisonment. “The heart,” Luther said, when he was speaking of the seal he had chosen as his symbol, “is placed in a white rose, to indicate the joy and peace and consolation which faith brings. But the rose is white and not red, for the joy and peace are not those of the world but of spirits.”